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July 24, 2015

According to Árbitro Internacional, Salvadorian World Cup Referee Joel Aguilar has been appointed to oversee the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final between Mexico and Jamaica to be played on Sunday. He will be assisted by his compatriot Juan Zumba and American Charles Morgante. John Pitti from Panama will act as the Fourth Official. This will be the 3rd consecutive Gold Cup final for Aguilar.Moreover CONCACAF appointed Óscar Moncada from Honduras to oversee the 3rd place match between USA and Panama.

Eight. It has been an immense number of referees promoted to UEFA's highest referee category, the so-called Elite-Group, which probably surprised most of us and maybe even some of the officials concerned themselves. Considering several seasons with a moderate amount of new Elite referees (6 in the last 3 years) compared to the number of retirements or demotions (7), Collina's and his colleagues' decision is kind of a caesura in UEFA refereeing. A caesura which I consider as fatal for some of the referees promoted and as a poor signal to other referees in lower categories.

Why waiting so long? UEFA puts eight men onto the highest step of the ladder at once!

UEFA has designated the following officiating teams to take charge of this year's Champions League Third Qualifying Round: Among others, remarkable top matches with important observers for Kenn Hansen, Matej Jug, Ivan Kružliak and Felix Zwayer (photo).

July 22, 2015

CONCACAF has revealed the appointments for Gold Cup 2015 semifinals. A full team of officials from Costa Rica, headed by Ricardo Montero, will be in the middle for USA - Jamaica, while US Mark Geiger from Beachwood will officiate the clash between Panama and Mexico. Both matches will be played at Georgia Dome, Atlanta.

July 20, 2015

+++ 8 Promotions to Elite ++++++ All Coaching Programme members have been promoted save Matej Jug +++ +++ No Demotions and No Other Changes in the other Categories ++++++ Italy the 2nd nation with 4 Elite Referees following Spain +++ +++ Stephan Studer and Richard Trutz retire from international refereeing +++

UEFA has decided a massively increasing number of Elite referees in their pool of match officials: 8 referees have been promoted to Elite. Among them, there are numerous surprises but also expected promotions.

July 18, 2015

The North- and Central American and Caribbean football association - CONCACAF - is not really throwing around information on the Gold Cup Referee Appointments. Thanks to our South American co-bloggers Árbitro Internacional as well as CONCACAFReferee's Blog, the assignments for the quarterfinal ties are almost completely known though. Among others, Henry Bejarano of Costa Rica will be the man in the middle of the politically historical duel between the United States and Cuba.

Following an official request by Federación Panameña de Fútbol, CONCACAF switched the original appointments of Aguilar and García Orozco. The Mexican, originally planned for Haiti - Honduras, will now oversee Panama - USA.

According to a source, the following four adidas referee jerseys will be worn at next year's UEFA European Championship 2016 in France. Having used grey as the fourth colour at the last EURO in Poland and the Ukraine, UEFA and their sponsor adidas seem to have agreed on red jerseys this time.

July 8, 2015

CONCACAF has appointed the following officials to oversee matches 1-6 at 2015 Gold Cup. Among others, Costa Rica's Henry Bejarano has been assigned to the opener, played between Panama and Haiti in Frisco, Texas.

Elite official William Collum of Scotland has been selected by UEFA's Referee Committee to take charge of this year's UEFA Super Cup Final played between the current Champions League and Europa League holders FC Barcelona and Sevilla FC in Georgia.

The 36-year old R.E. teacher will head an Scottish-Irish officiating crew into the final to be held at Tbilisi's Boris Paichladze Dinamo Arena on 11 August. Last season, he took charge of five UEFA Champions League matches including Barcelona's 3:1 win over Ajax.

11/08/2015, 20:45 CET (Tbilisi, GEO)

FC Barcelona - Sevilla FC

Referee: William Collum (SCO)

Assistant Referee 1: Damien Macgraith (IRL)

Assistant Referee 2: Francis Connor (SCO)

Additional Assistant Referee 1: Robert Madden (SCO)

Additional Assistant Referee 2: Kevin Clancy (SCO)

Fourth Official: Graham Chambers (SCO)

UEFA Referee Observer: Levan Paniashvili (GEO)

UEFA Delegate: ?
Blog Referee Observer: Detelin (BUL)

The 3rd Team wishes the team a smooth piece of refereeing and great experience!

July 6, 2015

UEFA has published the new composition of Referees Committee for the period 2017 - 19, valid from 1° July 2017. Pierluigi Collina, appointed a few weeks ago as Chairman of the Committee, has been also confirmed as Chief Refereeing Officer. Vladimir Sajn (SVN) and Dagmar Damková (CZE) have been promoted as Second Vice-Chairman and Third Vice-Chairwoman respectively. Portuguese José Fontelas Gomes has joined the panel as member.